Connecting the Islands: Cyber Connectivity for Science and Technology in Hawaii

摘要提案号：eps -1007033提案题目：连接岛屿；夏威夷科技网络连接机构：夏威夷大学项目主管：James R. gains本提案将使用2009年美国复苏与再投资法案（公法111-5）提供的资金进行奖励。这个RII校际和校园内网络连接（RII C2）奖项侧重于校际和岛屿间的连接，并寻求在四个特定地点之间提供新的10gbps连接。这些联系对夏威夷至关重要？夏威夷的EPSCoR项目蓬勃发展，以及夏威夷的科学技术（S&amp；T）研究和STEM教育议程。该项目将在这些关键地点提供十倍的能力增加，并且该设计将在未来扩展到夏威夷的所有公立高等教育机构和其他关键地点。在这个RII C2中提出的校园之间的连接将使Maui高性能计算中心（MHPCC）的高性能计算设施、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校（UHM）的新大容量存储、夏威夷大学希洛分校（UHH）的新可视化和建模能力以及Kapiolani社区学院（KCC）的STEM计划成为可能。它还将通过新兴的高清晰度视频会议，在整个州内外的校园和跨学科的研究人员之间加强更有效的合作。这个项目的四个初始地点被特别选中，以突出夏威夷内外新的网络基础设施授权方法的知识价值。毛伊岛高性能计算中心（MHPCC）是美国国防部（DoD）六个主要超级计算机设施之一。根据教育合作协议的条款，UH和国防部已经同意在MHPCC设施建立一个互补的夏威夷开放超级计算中心，该中心将利用数据中心和运营支持，为夏威夷的学术、政府和商业科学技术提供高性能计算（HPC）资源。RII C2项目将支持范围广泛的世界级项目，特别是在夏威夷被视为具有竞争优势的领域：天文学、海洋学、海洋研究、地质学和地球物理学、气候研究和进化生物学。夏威夷岛具有显著的环境多样性，因此UHH将其作为战略重点，在其研究和教育计划中利用其全岛生活实验室。更广泛的影响该计划将直接和实质性地影响KCC和UHH的努力，使夏威夷原住民，太平洋岛民和菲律宾学生参与STEM研究和教育计划，这些计划非常关注STEM学科与土著文化和实践之间的联系。这可能会让更多未被充分代表的人群进入STEM学科和职业。网络增强将通过提供更多的访问国家和全球网络、数据收集和管理工具、高性能计算、建模、可视化和虚拟组织，促进夏威夷和世界其他地区的连接。此外，网络连接的改善将有助于夏威夷的科学向更多大陆学生和学者开放，这可能促进更大的智力创新。

AbstractProposal Number: EPS-1007033Proposal Title: Connecting the Islands; Cyber Connectivity for Science and Technology in HawaiiInstitution: University of Hawaii Project Director: James R. GainesThis proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This RII Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) award focuses on inter-campus and inter-island connectivity and seeks to provide new 10 Gbps connections among four specific locations. These connections are most critical to Hawaii?s thriving EPSCoR program as well as to the overall Science and Technology (S&T) research and STEM education agendas in Hawaii. The project will provide a ten-fold increase in capability among these key locations, and the design will be extensible in the future to all public higher education institutions in Hawaii and other key S&T locations. The connectivity among campuses proposed in this RII C2 will enable essential access to high performance computing facilities at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), the new mass storage at University of Hawaii-Manoa (UHM), the new visualization and modeling capacity at University of Hawaii-Hilo (UHH), and STEM initiatives at Kapiolani Community College (KCC). It will also enhance more effective collaboration through emerging high definition videoconferencing among researchers across campuses and across disciplines throughout the state and beyond.Intellectual MeritThe four initial locations for this project were selected specifically to highlight the intellectual merit of new cyberinfrastructure-empowered methodologies within Hawaii and beyond. The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) is one of the six major U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) supercomputer facilities. Under the terms of an Educational Partnership Agreement, UH and the DoD have agreed to establish a complementary Hawaii Open Supercomputing Center at the MHPCC facility that will leverage the data center and operational support to provide High Performance Computing (HPC) resources for academic, governmental and commercial science and technology within Hawaii. The RII C2 project will support a broad range of world-class programs focused particularly in areas where Hawaii is viewed as having a competitive advantage: astronomy, oceanography, marine studies, geology & geophysics, climate studies, and evolutionary biology. The island of Hawaii has significant environmental diversity, thus UHH has made it a strategic priority to leverage its island-wide living laboratory in its research and education programs.Broader ImpactsThis program will directly and substantially impact efforts at KCC and UHH to engage Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islander and Filipino students in STEM research and education initiatives that have a strong focus on linkages between STEM disciplines and indigenous cultures and practices. This could bring more underrepresented populations into STEM disciplines and careers. The network enhancements will facilitate connectivity across Hawaii and to the rest of the world by providing more access to national and global networks, data collection and management tools, high performance computing, modeling, visualization, and virtual organizations. In addition, the improved cyber connectivity will help open Hawaii-based science to increased involvement from mainland based students and scholars which could facilitate greater intellectual innovation.